<p>In most of these cases, what does "really screw up" mean? Would a D - down from a C - be enough to do the trick at a school like Wisconsin (if one's other grades remain the same)? Or are we talking multiple Ds and/or failures?</p>
<p>Does anyone know of a student having an acceptance revoked for lieing on the application? Possibly regarding dicipline infractions or being untruthful about EC activities,etc.?</p>
<p>I think its honestly just a scare tactic used by counselors and teachers. My AP Lit teacher is the worst offender, reminding us every week that we aren't in college just because we've been accepted. Its really starting to get old.</p>
<p>Basically, just make sure you don't get any grades lower than a C. If you do that I really doubt the school will go through the trouble of rescinding your acceptance.</p>
<p>UC Davis 2004 article about students who got rescinded: <a href="http://ucdavismagazine.ucdavis.edu/issues/fall04/parents.html%5B/url%5D">http://ucdavismagazine.ucdavis.edu/issues/fall04/parents.html</a></p>
<p>And from the Chronicle of Higher Education, 2003:
"Illinois State University began to carefully review students' final high-school transcripts about five years ago. Before that, the university hardly ever revoked admissions offers. Now it bars at least a half-dozen students, out of 3,000 admitted, from matriculating each year.</p>
<p>"That scrutiny is a way of boosting our image as well as our retention," says Steve Adams, director of admissions. Although the number of students whose offers are revoked is small, he says, high-school counselors have taken notice and alerted students to the university's change in policy. "It's more about the message more than the action."</p>
<p>Smith College has two warning letters, dubbed "Slide One," for students whose grades drop, and "Slide Two," for those who fail a course. Only a handful of each go out each year, and withdrawing an offer is rare, according to Audrey Y. Smith, director of admission. </p>
<p>"Usually, there's a reasonable explanation, and when there is not, we rescind admissions, which is the most unpleasant thing that any admissions director could have to do," she says."</p>
<p>Link to NPR report about research that students who slack off a lot senior year have a hard time making it through college: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1122753%5B/url%5D">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1122753</a></p>
<p>From the Oregonian, 2002:
"There isn't much a student can do once an admissions officer has decided to rescind the offer, says Lewis & Clark's Sexton, who has withdrawn only three offers of admission in his 11 years at the college. Begging certainly doesn't work, he says, and, considering the high cost of college that so many parents must bear, "I imagine (students) do all their begging before we even hear about it."</p>
<p>Still, Pitts says she was impressed by a recent letter from an incoming freshman who pointed out falling grades and outlined a plan to bring them back up. That student "didn't get a finger-wagging letter from me," Pitts says. Instead, Pitts wrote back an encouraging letter -- and blocked the student's admission until final grades arrive. </p>
<p>The message to students should be clear, she says. "We really do care, we really do pay attention," Pitts says. "There really are consequences for not taking your senior year seriously, all the way through to the end of your senior year."
<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/education/oregonian/index.ssf?/education/oregonian/navigate6.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.oregonlive.com/education/oregonian/index.ssf?/education/oregonian/navigate6.html</a></p>
<p>FACT</p>
<p>This was going on while our now junior at UNC son was in his college process which is what brought it to my attention.</p>
<p>In 2003 UNC Chapel Hill rescinded admissions to a student named Mark Edmonson. </p>
<p>From the Daily Tar Heel 9/4/03 edition:</p>
<p>".....According to a memorandum filed by the N.C. Attorney General's Office on Aug. 19, Mark Edmonson, who scored a 1600 on his SAT, failed to complete his senior year with the same level of achievement he had reached during his first three years of high school.</p>
<p>Mark Edmonson's unweighted grade point average fell from 3.22 to 2.75 after his senior year. That year he earned three C's, two D's and one F......"</p>
<p>For the rest of the article:</p>
<p>A subsequent DTH article from 11/21/03 stated:</p>
<p>"....A prospective student has an obligation to maintain grades that are similar to those that got them admitted," said Fulton.</p>
<p>In a letter that is addressed to all students upon acceptance, Jerry Lucido, UNC's director of undergraduate admissions, stresses the importance of continuing a comparable academic performance after being admitted to the University.</p>
<p>"We expect you to continue to achieve at the same level that enabled us to provide this offer of admission; we also expect you to graduate on time."</p>
<p>Edmonson's acceptance to UNC was rescinded July 30 when his unweighted grade point average fell from 3.22 to 2.75 during his senior year. Edmonson, who scored a 1600 on the SAT, earned three C's, two D's and one F."</p>
<p>that complete article:</p>
<p>Try the UW website, yougotjohn:
<a href="http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/dec06/content/view/61/38/%5B/url%5D">http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/dec06/content/view/61/38/</a></p>
<p>ahh darn just got my interim grade report in today... for mid 2nd trimester</p>
<p>this looks bad</p>
<p>2 A's but 3 C's (AP Bio - i think will go up to B after she grades my lab report, AP Chem - EHhh.... AP STats - I will hand in a project in a month and that will bring me to a B i think).</p>
<p>where does that leave me?</p>
<p>Yes, this does happen. I'm a college advisor at a public high school. Just last year Univ. of Georgia notified us that they rescinded an admissions offer. Also...in our state (not GA) dual enrollment classes can cause problems. State universities require a miminum GPA in college classes--failing a DE class could cause an acceptance to be rescinded. I also attend yearly workshops of the state admissions directors. They all say this happens. It is very rare, but it definitely happens.</p>
<p>Google "Blair Hornstine"...the student who had her Harvard admission offer rescinded based on plagiarism.</p>
<p>are you all referring to the midyear reports, or the final-second-semester grades-whatever when you talk about colleges seeing grades dropping?</p>
<p>Both...but I'm referring mostly to 2nd semester grades.</p>
<p>What about if you get into a "fight" at school?</p>
<p>Just make sure you win :P</p>
<p>It definitely does happen. When I was in high school the College Counselling Center sent out a letter with photocopies of various recindment letters (with names blacked out obviously) from fairly elite schools.</p>
<p>second Acere...</p>
<p>just dont get anything less than a D... from all the reports it sounds like getting the D put you on the radar, and if you couldnt explain you got kicked out</p>
<p>I got a D in Calc AB for first semester, and I need to notify the colleges to which I applied. After reading this thread, I am not sure when I should do so? I am not trying to lie to the colleges or anything; I am definitely going to send each a letter about the D, but should I wait until after admission decisions are to be posted/sent out, say around March, and let them decide whether to accept or reject me first, or would that just be foolish? Would it look too bad on my part if I send the letter that late after first semester ended?</p>
<p>never heard of it happening to anyone...If you're smart enough to get into a good college and usually maintain A's and some B's, then you're probably smart enough to slack, but still maintain B's and an occasional C, to avoid the risk of having your application rescinded.</p>
<p>I know of it happening to two people. One in high school, and one in the college transfer process.</p>
<p>It happens, and it's been happening for awhile now. The OP was right though, these students sent back transcripts with D's on them.</p>
<p>i personally know somebody from my high school, graduated last year, got accepted to our state school (rutgers) and proceeded to slack off and drop half of his classes in the second half of senior year. he got his admission rescinded and now he's at a community college taking classes and he's going to try to transfer in back to rutgers next year </p>
<p>so does it happen? yes. very often? no not really. it takes work to get your admission rescinded so it's not a very common occurrence</p>
<p>I have a question:</p>
<p>What if you do well in an AP class, let's say at least a B+, but end up getting a 2 or even a 1 on the exam? Would that jeopardize the acceptance??</p>
<p>hmm i dont think so, but i could be wrong. But, by then it's pretty late (summer, right?) and I think you probably won't be penalized for it.</p>